LEMBERG WINE ESTATE Saturday 27 January 2018 http://www.lemberg.co.za/ Experience: 4.5/5 Wines: 4.5/5 I’ve heard it said to leave the best until last. That was certainly the case (pun intended) today. Lemberg Wine Estate was my final tasting of a busy...

MANLEY WINE LODGE Saturday 27 January 2018 http://www.manleywinelodge.co.za/ Experience: 4/5 Wines: 4/5 There’s a saying about London buses that goes along the lines of that one doesn’t see one for ages and then 2 come along together. Well, that’s true...

RIJK’S PRIVATE CELLAR Saturday 27 January 2018 http://www.rijkswine.com/ Experience: 3.5/5 Wines: 4/5 I had an awkward length of time to kill between tasting appointments at Lateganskop Winery and the Manley Private Cellar and so I ventured to Tulbagh to Rijk’s...

LATEGANSKOP WINERY Saturday 27 January 2018 http://lateganskop.co.za/ Experience: 3.5/5 Wines: 4/5 The Tasting Room at Lateganskop must have been the hardest I have yet to find in over 120 vineyard tastings. The only signs on the Breede River Valley farm...

LE MANOIR DE BRENDEL WINE ESTATE & GUEST HOUSE Friday 26 January 2018 http://www.le-manoir-de-brendel.com/ Experience: 4/5 Wines: 4/5 The tasting at Le Manoir de Brendel was unlike any other. I have written this before but such is the joy, uniqueness...

MÔRESON WINE ESTATE Friday 26 January 2018 https://www.moreson.co.za/ Experience: 4/5 Wines: 4/5 I had special reason to visit Franschhoek. I had waited 7 months until veraison to take reference cultivar photos of the rows of exemplar grapes at La Motte....

MOOIPLAAS WINE ESTATE Tuesday 23 January 2018 http://mooiplaas.co.za/ Experience: 4/5 Wines: 5/5 Mooiplaas was so close to Kaapzicht – barely a kilometre up the tidy gravel road – that I could not resist visiting. I was super pleased that I...

KAAPZICHT WINE ESTATE Tuesday 23 January 2018 http://www.kaapzicht.co.za/ Experience: 3.5/5 Wines: 3.5/5 Kaapzicht was barely a kilometre along the Bottleray Road from Groenland and an easy turn off up a road flanked by tall trees and opening out through vineyards....

STELLENBOSCH SUMMER SOIREE Wednesday 24 January 2018 http://www.wineroute.co.za/ Experience: 4.5/5 Wines: 4/5 Somewhat to my surprise, I hadn’t heard of the Street Soirées that are being held in Stellenbosch during the summer months. Such is the power of social media...

GROENLAND WYNES Tuesday 23 January 2018 http://www.groenland.co.za/ Experience: 4/5 Wines: 4/5 It’s a popular misnomer but Greenland is covered in ice and Iceland is more mountain and pasture than ice. ‘Groenland’ thus hardly seems appropriate in the Western Cape at...